Security & Auth

All Articles (5 articles)

• CSRF and CORS Defense for Modern Web Applications

  Web Foundations / Security & Auth 15 min read

  A deep dive into Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)—their threat models, specification-level mechanics, and defense-in-depth implementation patterns for production web applications.

• OAuth 2.0 and OIDC Flows: Authorization Code to PKCE

  Web Foundations / Security & Auth 16 min read

  A comprehensive technical analysis of OAuth 2.0 authorization flows, OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity layer, PKCE security mechanism, and token lifecycle management for secure authentication and authorization implementations.

• Web Application Security Architecture

  Web Foundations / Security & Auth 15 min read

  A defense-in-depth guide to security controls, threat mitigation strategies, and implementation patterns for modern web applications—covering security headers, authentication, cryptography, and the OWASP Top 10:2025.

• Authentication Foundations: Sessions, Tokens, and Trust

  Web Foundations / Security & Auth 23 min read

  An in-depth technical analysis of AAA frameworks for expert practitioners, exploring modern authentication mechanisms, authorization models, access control paradigms, and their implementation patterns with Node.js examples.

• OWASP Top 10: Web Application Security Risks

  Web Foundations / Security & Auth 12 min read

  The OWASP Top 10 is a ranked list of the most critical web application security risks, derived from real-world vulnerability data. The 2025 edition analyzed 2.8 million applications with 589 CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) mappings across 248 categories, making it the definitive baseline for application security priorities.